One19, the worldwide movement of humanity to combat Covid-19, has been launched. Everyone is aware that no country in the world can go alone.
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One19, the worldwide movement of humanity to combat Covid-19, has been launched. Everyone is aware that no country in the world can go alone.
By working together, all countries have the chance to optimize testing, treatment, and vaccination to save the people in this world. The movement is not science fiction, like in the Hollyword movie, Armageddon, about how all countries join forces to send their best people into space to stop an extinction event meteor heading towards Earth. One19 is a real-life movement to save the Earth from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
This united movement needs to be initiated, built, maintained, and continuously developed in the Indonesian archipelago. This was discussed at a webinar held by Kompas with the Gadjah Mada University Alumni Family. A government program cannot be the sole approach to dealing with the Indonesian outbreak, and must also involve a collective movement. The approach cannot be exclusive, but inclusive. The approach cannot employ just the power of authority, and must also use the power of influence (Kompas, 25/10/2020).
All the powers of the nation, all the best people in their fields, must be actively involved; the universal power of the people.
A united movement that involves all parties, including business, education, religious and community leaders, is needed for us to overcome Covid-19 more quickly. Government, whether central or regional, will not be able to overcome the epidemic on their own. All the powers of the nation, all the best people in their fields, must be actively involved; the universal power of the people.
Indonesia has a culture of gotong royong (mutual cooperation). Sayidiman Suryohadiprojo writes in Budaya Gotong Royong dan Masa Depan Bangsa (Culture of Mutual Cooperation and the Nation’s Future) that gotong royong is the cultural core of the Indonesian nation. The Indonesian people may be different from one another, but at the same time we are one, because we live together as we work together as one nation. However, this warrior figure also points out that, the nation, especially its leaders, has not made serious efforts to maintain this natural, social character and behavior of mutual cooperation.
Referring to the World Health Organization’s four frameworks of pandemic mitigation management, many things can be done together in terms of diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccination, and health infrastructure improvements. Regarding vaccination, for instance, the coverage must be very broad and so requires the involvement of many parties, from clinical trial volunteers to experts, from the provision of health workers to vaccination sites, logistics and transportation, to vaccine storage, equipment and security, and to public outreach.
CEO Richard Edelman of global communication company Edelman, underlined that this was also the time for governments, the media, businesses and nongovernmental organizations to work together and build trust. Trust has been at its the lowest point during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we must all work together to restore it. It is the time to work together. It is the time for one Indonesia to fight Covid-19.